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I see that people are marveling about Mick Mulvaney, who constantly used apocalyptic rhetoric about deficits under Obama, now says that debt doesn't matter 1/ latimes.com/business/la-fi…
It really is a total flip-flop. 2/ politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
But of course Mulvaney never was a real deficit hawk. None of the Republicans shouting about debt were. They only pretended to care about debt as a way to hobble Obama and slash social spending – and this was obvious at the time 3/ nytimes.com/2012/03/02/opi…
What we've learned from the Stephen Moore affair – or actually had confirmed, bc it was something we suspected all along – is that monetary hawkers was also phony. High interest rates for Obama, even at 9% unemployment; low rates for Trump 4/
None of the GOP's economic posturing since 2008 has been in good faith. None 5/
